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Photos: Celebrity birthdays today, Feb. 8; and: Beatles fly over

Thousands of screaming fans met the Fab Four as their U.S. invasion began on this day in 1964. The screaming continued the next day during the Beatles’ appearance on TV’s “The Ed Sullivan Show,” and 73 million Americans watched at home. Concerts in Washington, D.C., New York and Miami followed on that first tour.
The following summer, their next tour opened at San Francisco’s Cow Palace, and took them to other major cities and to Kansas City, Indianapolis and Milwaukee before heading home.
Only the next year did the Beatles finally make it to the Twin Cities, on Aug. 21 at the half-sold-out old Metropolitan Stadium. They skipped Minnesota on their final U.S. tour in summer 1966.
– Lisa Legge